French Final

Future Simple

A tense used to describe actions that will happen in the future.

Future Anterior

A tense that expresses an action that will have been completed before another future action.

Future Conditional

A tense that expresses a hypothetical or conditional action that could happen in the future.

Plus-que-parfait

A tense that expresses an action that had already happened before another past action.

Formation of Future Simple

Regular verbs form the future simple by adding future endings (-ai, -as, -a, -ons, -ez, -ont) to the infinitive.

Être future stem

The future stem for the verb 'être' is 'ser-'.

Avoir future stem

The future stem for the verb 'avoir' is 'aur-'.

Formation of Future Anterior

Future anterior is formed using the future simple of 'avoir' or 'être' plus the past participle.

Formation of Plus-que-parfait

Plus-que-parfait is formed using the imperfect tense of 'avoir' or 'être' plus the past participle.

Irregular Verb: Faire

In future tenses, the verb 'faire' has the stem 'fer-'.

Irregular Verb: Aller

In future tenses, the verb 'aller' has the stem 'ir-'.

Irregular Verb: Venir

In future tenses, the verb 'venir' has the stem 'viendr-'.

Auxiliary for Movement Verbs

In future anterior and plus-que-parfait, movement or reflexive verbs typically use 'être'.

Example of Future Conditional Form

'Je parlerais' (I would speak) is an example of future conditional using 'parler'.

Example of Future Simple

'Je ferai' (I will do) is an example of future simple using 'faire'.

Avoir in Future Anterior

Example: 'Il aura mangé' (He will have eaten) uses 'avoir' in future anterior.

Être in Plus-que-parfait

Example: 'Elle était partie' (She had left) uses 'être' in plus-que-parfait.

Phrases for Contextualizing Tenses

Phrases like 'avant que' (before) help contextualize the use of future tenses.